We Are So Far Behind The Rest Of The World

State’s Rights, State’s Rights, that’s all I ever hear, but there are rights that supersede state’s right, they are basic human rights that cannot be denied and one of those rights are the right to determine their gender.

Ireland passes law allowing trans people to choose their legal gender
Gender recognition bill will eliminate need for medical or state intervention and comes months after the country voted for same-sex marriage
The Guardian
By Henry McDonald
July 16, 2015

Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state intervention.

The majority of countries in Europe require transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilisation, or be diagnosed with a mental disorder and get divorced if they are married, in order to have their desired gender legally recognised.

The gender recognition bill, passed late on Wednesday and set to be signed into law by the end of July, makes Ireland only the third European country, after Denmark and Malta, to allow transgender people aged over 18 to change their legal gender without intervention.

The bill was passed months after the people of Ireland backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in a country that decriminalised homosexuality just two decades ago.
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Last year, Denmark became the first European country to allow transgender people to self-determine their legal gender from the age of 18. Malta’s law, introduced in April, permits parents or legal guardians of under-18s to apply in court on their behalf to change legal gender.

Here in the U.S. we only have eight states and the District of Columbia that allow you to change your gender on your birth certificate without surgery and in the majority of the states LGBT have no protection at all.

Because of the way you were born in 28 states you can be fired, made homeless, denied entry into a business.